Duau language

Duau is a dialectically diverse Austronesian language spoken in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Duau Rural LLG.[3]

Duau
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMilne Bay Province
Native speakers
(3,600 cited 1991)[1]
Austronesian
Dialects
  • Dawada
  • Guleguleu
  • Mwalukwasia
  • Siausi
  • Somwadina
Language codes
ISO 639-3dva
Glottologduau1237[2]

References

  1. Duau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Duau". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.


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